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Title:Faithful Transgressions In The American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical ActsAuthor:Laura BushPublisher:Utah State University PressDate Published: March 2004Edition:1ISBN-13:9780874215519ISBN-10: 087421551X

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Preface: Gender Trouble and My Hybrid Life

Introduction: Autobiographical Constructions of the Mormon Self(s)

1

1

Narrating Optimism, Faith, and Divine Intervention

30

Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Morman Frontier

2

Defending and Condemning a Polygamous Life

55

A Mormon Mother

3

Truth Telling about a Temporal and a Spiritual Life

79

Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier

4

Remedying Race and Religious Prejudice

109

Black Mormon Tells Her Story

5

A Home Windswept with Paradox

145

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

6

Training to Be a Good Mormon Girl While Longing for Fame

171

How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir

Conclusion

194

App. A

The Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints